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It's rare to hear a religious extremist attack today's icons of supposed anti-Christian persecution, but Pastor Steven Anderson is no ordinary religious extremist. As pastor of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, last year Anderson made national headlines after promising the world an "AIDS free world by Christmas" if America would merely "execute the homos like God instructs."

Pastor Anderson, whose church at one point appeared on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of anti-gay hate groups, is back, preaching to his congregation that, if the audio on the video below is correct, includes small children.

In this undated but recent clip, Anderson goes on a rant about Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, angered that Governor Mike Pence called for and signed into law a bill that clarifies the law cannot be used to discriminate against gay people.

Anderson mocked Pence, saying, "we don’t want anyone to misunderstand the law because we don’t want anyone to think that they don’t have to serve homos because they do." He added, "Then what is the law? What was it even for, then?"

But the bulk of Anderson's attack was aimed at the owners of Memories Pizza, which walked away with over three-quarters of a million dollars after stating they would not cater a gay wedding, and Melissa Klein, of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, who was sued for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

Anderson labeled the Memories Pizza owners "weakling cowards" for closing down for a week after being attacked online and purportedly receiving death threats. And he attacked "all of the sodomites of the world," who are "just raging and infuriated at this pizza place."

“Who are these perverts who ordered a pizza for the wedding?" he demanded to know.

"These people are doubly perverted," Anderson said. "Because not only are you perverting nature by being a sodomite, you’re catering your wedding with cheap pizza."

Anderson insisted the family who owns Memories Pizza should have stood up to the LGBT community and its allies, namely, most of the U.S. Instead of cowering and "kow-towing" they should have proudly quoted bible verses and attacked the "animals" and "queers" without any apology for their faith.

Then Anderson took big hits at Melissa Klein, the owner of Sweet Cakes by Melissa. Of course, he got most of the fact wrong in his sermon, but his overriding point again was, don't be nice to gay people, proudly denounce them and refuse to serve them, like he does.

Anderson mocked Klein for crying on national TV. "I wasn't trying to hurt these sodomites' feelings," he said, pretending to be Klein. "I don't want to hurt anybody, but I just couldn't cater this particular event, and I've made so many cupcakes for them."

"This is just how I've chosen to live my live as a Christian," Anderson continued to say, mocking Klein.

He said he doesn't feel sorry for the Kleins, "because you know what, they are compromising and they are not standing for the word of god an they are tools of the media to brainwash you," Anderson shouted.

"We don’t serve queers in this church," Anderson promised, wanting to know why the Kleins, whom he accused of attending a "liberal church," were nice to their gay customers.

"The Bible does not say ‘Don’t hurt their feelings.’ The Bible calls them beasts!"

'Who thinks it's a hard decision if some faggot wants you to make them a wedding cake?," Anderson polled his congregation. "Anybody struggling with that right now?"

Anderson insisted Melissa Klein is "is part of what is destroying America."

"Christians, so called," like Melissa Klein, Anderson preached, "who will not stand on the word of God, and who bow down and kowtow to these filthy perverts" by humbling explaining that their deeply held religious beliefs ban them from baking cakes for same-sex weddings, are "part of what is destroying America."